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Top Safety Accreditation for Jenrick Engineering (again!)

Top Safety Accreditation for Jenrick Engineering
Local business Jenrick Engineering has once again been awarded accreditation from Alcumus SafeContractor for achieving excellence in health and safety in the workplace.
Alcumus SafeContractor is a leading third party accreditation scheme which recognises extremely rigorous standards in health and safety management amongst contractors. It is used by thousands of organisations in the UK including SMEs and FTSE 100 companies.

Jenrick Engineering is principally involved in the Recruitment sector, working closely with a variety of manufacturing industries ranging Food, FMCG, Pharmaceutical, Aerospace, Automotive, Plastic, General Manufacturing and many more supplying short, long term, interim or ad hoc contract engineering personnel

The company’s annual application for SafeContractor accreditation was driven by their understanding of the need for contract engineers within the manufacturing industry. This coupled with the commitment to providing the highest standard of skills, with total comprehension of health and safely in the workplace means that Jenrick’s contractors can immediately supplement their clients workforce, enabling them to achieve productivity targets and reduce down time.

Gemma Archibald, Director of Alcumus SafeContractor said: "Major organisations simply cannot afford to run the risk of employing contractors who are not able to prove that they have sound health and safety policies in place."
"More companies need to understand the importance of adopting good risk management in the way that Jenrick Engineering has done. The firm’s high standard has set an example which hopefully will be followed by other companies within the sector. SafeContractor plays a vital role in supporting our clients in meeting their compliance needs, whilst working with their contractors as they progress through the accreditation process.”
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Julie Alton
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